Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-10-09

These tHo articles q The ksxn and
garden wonld seem hardly proper y
group together but knowing the party
fAEr. !. r. Patton Of Alasrtnn) max
ing specially q the two. We took o.
canion % intsrEosste him with REFER
encs 70 actnal experience fcz series
q yearsL Win references % tobacco
culture IA Washingtnn Territory Mr..
Patton writes.
hare heen raisinw and exnexi.
menting with tobacco for fifteen years.
and have niwaFB had satisfactory re-
guiE, 80 fnr a. quality was concerned:
producing . very 6ne smoking tobacco
free from the burning sensati0n 50 Oft
en- found Ia smoking tobacco
! raised ~ acres this year. which
has been q poor season fer nearly all
crops. cut the crop the Last week in
August, and have Z IL The tobacco
house under process Of curing.
think ] vii have about oue con from
the ~ acres. ] cOntsmplate manu-
iacturing Il into smoking tobacco un-
der the revenue law, and thea place it
upon the market. IamUf The opinion
the cost q raising an acre q tobacco
IL abous the same a. hops until IL comes
% harvesting. and then the tobacco
has the advantage, a. three men can
harvest and hang IN the house four or
i've acres IN ten days. have a house
l8 feet By a, and = feet 70 the plat,
which viii hold Eve acres. ! have q
sheet-iron Cue from afufnace leading
around the building, and cure be TO-
bacco entirely By ARTIFICIAL heat. ex-
pect 70 realize 30 cents per pouRd net,
after misunderstanding.
II Mr.. Patton can raise SO pounds
Il tobacco to the acre, and realize 30
cents per pound net for L. then the
cultivation Of Il would certainly be
profitable.
About hlackberries he writes
(" set out my FIRST blackberry yard
In the year 1916, and have had very
good success until this year. From
soma cause that don't understand,
my yard appearE 70 heEe blight that
seem8 % make it, appearances hrst on
the top Of the bushes, and extenasI
downWaFaz until the whole bush dies,
even after fruit has formed. The con-
sequanceis, ! have only about one third
Of the usual yield.
viii give my success for last year
had near two acres in berries. sold
enough berries to buy 600 pounds Of
gfannlated sugar, and made 300 gall
Ions Of wine, besides having enough
for ourselves and supplied several
neighbors. The wine was sold for
S1.1 per gallon BY the barrel. ! think
enough was sold 10 neighbors 70 pay
all the expense Of picking. so the net
profit would appear 10 be Si26 per acre
net. The wine gives very good ; It's,
faction, and Is pronounced by good
judges IS splendid. have made $50
gallons this year, notwithstanding the
blight"
We have repeatedly made the asser-
ton that blackberries could be raised,
pound for pound, nearly as cheap as
potatoes. The blight mentioned BY
Mr.. Patton Is new. In al our expert
ence Of over thirty years we have never
had a failure. They used TO grow 90
vigorous on the home farm--the two
rows that supplied us with all We could
eat and more, too-that the children
could have fairly climbed them. Is they
used to theorchard trees near by. One
stalk, preserved over the store door for
two years, measured nineteen feet three
inches long. A single hill in the same
row gave p pounds Of berries At one
picking. What we. want is more small
fruit-snough 70 make q cannery pos
sible.